ManPage XML Reference(5)

NAME
ManPage XML Reference - Tags and symbolic representations list

DESCRIPTION

Contains a (mostly complete) list of UNIX Manual Page format XML tags which are used with manedit (UNIX Manual Page editor).

PARAGRAPHS

Paragraph tags.

<LP>
    Left paragraph, aligns text on next and subsequent lines to the left edge of the document. This can also be used as an empty line to separate two lines. An immediate newline must follow this tag.

<RP>
    Right paragraph, behavour not available.

<IP>
    Indented paragraph, not particularly useful and requires a <li> tag at the end of the same line which contains one tag (if you are trying to make listed items with descriptions try <TP> instead).

<TP>
    Item and description, text on immediate following line is the item and next and subsequent lines are its description. This tag is used very often to make a list of items, for example:

        <TP>
        item value
        This is an item with the specified value.

        Becomes:

item value
            This is an item with the specified value.

<B> Bullet list item, behavour not available.

STYLES

Style tags which change the style of text.

<fR>
    Normal, text following this tag will be normal.

<fB>
    Bold, text following this tag will be bold. Use <fR> at the end of styled text to return following text to normal.

<fI>
    Underlined, text following this tag will be underlined (or italic if viewing through non-terminal GUI viewer).Use <fR> at the end of styled text to return following text to normal.

CONTROL

Control tags to control the alignment and spacings.

<br>
    Line break (explicit newline).

<LP>
    Left paragraph, but can be used as two line breaks to form one empty line.

SYMREPS

Symbolic representations, used to represent certain characters literally that would otherwise be interprited as part of the XML format which you don't want them to be.

&amp;
    Ampersand (the & character).

&lt;
    Less than (the < character).

&gt;
    Greater than (the > character).

SEE ALSO
manpage_writing_procedures(5)